There used to be an option to enable editable menu accelerators for GNOME apps. The GNOME team removed the GUI for this, but at least under GNOME 2 it was still available via gconf. Recent Ubuntu versions use GNOME 3; I'm not sure of whether that still works (since GNOME 3 has migrated to dconf). I tried it in the old gconf-editor
, and setting the option /org/gnome/desktop/interface/can-change-accels
using dconf-editor
, but it doesn't seem to work in Gedit (v3.4 on Precise).
According to Where to configure shortcut keys of Nautilus?, it doesn't work with Unity's global menu. You could load a different desktop environment and make the change there (if it works).
It may still be possible to edit the keyboard shortcuts by editing configuration files. According to a commenter on the (very outdated) Gedit shortcuts documentation page:
You don't really need a plugin to change keyboard shortcuts. This
(also) works:
~/.config/gedit/accels
:
; gedit GtkAccelMap rc-file -*- scheme -*-
(gtk_accel_path "<Actions>/GeditWindowActions/DocumentsPreviousDocument" "<Control>Page_Up")
(gtk_accel_path "<Actions>/GeditWindowActions/DocumentsNextDocument" "<Control>Page_Down")
(gtk_accel_path "<Actions>/GeditWindowActions/SearchFindPrevious" "<Shift>F3")
(gtk_accel_path "<Actions>/GeditWindowActions/SearchFindNext" "F3")
~/.config/gtk-3.0/gtk.css
:
@binding-set unbind-ctrl-d {
unbind "<ctrl>d";
unbind "<shift>F10";
unbind "<ctrl>Page_Up";
unbind "<ctrl>Page_Down";
}
GtkTreeView { gtk-key-bindings: unbind-ctrl-d; }
GtkTextView { gtk-key-bindings: unbind-ctrl-d; }
According to one commenter, Ctrl-Tab is hardcoded and cannot be rebound easily, but there is a plugin that purports to do this. To install the plugin, see How do I install a plugin for gEdit v3?.
For gedit2, the plugin files go in ~/.gnome2/gedit/plugins
.
If you're unable to get it to work, you could use a different editor that lets you edit shortcuts, such as KDE's Kate.
The list of default keyboard shortcuts in Gedit is available in the manual. Click "Help" > "Contents" > "Shortcut keys" in Gedit to access it.